Tommy Thompson quit today....who's next?

[RevolutionSD]

I say Duncan Hunter will drop next then maybe (hopefully) McCain.

[DeadheadForPaul]

Duncan Hunter > McCain > Tancredo > Brownback

It'll come down to Dr. Paul, Mitt, Guiliani, Fred..just like the NV debate

[paulaholic]

Cox!

[jj111]

I don't think Cox ever has to quit this campaign. After all, he doesn't appear to be doing any campaigning at all, so it doesn't seem to cost him a penny to stay in this race "officially."

[nullvalu]

i seriously hadn't heard of him until like last week.. :D

[Jared Callanan]

Believe it or not John Cox has done A LOT of campaigning, pretty sure if you look into it he has probably been in the state of Iowa and New Hampshire more than most of the candidates involved in the debates.

I didn't believe this until I heard it on the other forum but if it is true that you can't run for two offices at once in Colorado one has the believe that Tom Tancredo is the next to drop out. I am one of the firm believers that Duncan Hunter is running for a cabinet position so I believe he will stay in. If Tancredo continues to run he is certainly risking his house seat.... Can anyone confirm the Colorado law on this?

[Original_Intent]

Believe it or not John Cox has done A LOT of campaigning, pretty sure if you look into it he has probably been in the state of Iowa and New Hampshire more than most of the candidates involved in the debates.

I didn't believe this until I heard it on the other forum but if it is true that you can't run for two offices at once in Colorado one has the believe that Tom Tancredo is the next to drop out. I am one of the firm believers that Duncan Hunter is running for a cabinet position so I believe he will stay in. If Tancredo continues to run he is certainly risking his house seat.... Can anyone confirm the Colorado law on this?

If Hunter is running for a cabinet position, wouldn't he WANT to get out once there is a perceived frontrunner and then endorse that candidate?

[bbachtung]

Believe it or not John Cox has done A LOT of campaigning, pretty sure if you look into it he has probably been in the state of Iowa and New Hampshire more than most of the candidates involved in the debates.

I didn't believe this until I heard it on the other forum but if it is true that you can't run for two offices at once in Colorado one has the believe that Tom Tancredo is the next to drop out. I am one of the firm believers that Duncan Hunter is running for a cabinet position so I believe he will stay in. If Tancredo continues to run he is certainly risking his house seat.... Can anyone confirm the Colorado law on this?

I did a little bit of checking into Colorado elections. It appears that the primary (in which someone running for Congress would participate) occurs in June, while the presidential caucuses occur on February 5th. This would leave Tancredo plenty of time to file for the June primary (70 days prior to the election) after "Super Tuesday." Colorado just changed its law re: the caucus date this session, so it is likely a fairly new experience for Coloradans to split the candidate selection process for the presidential candidates and candidates for all other offices.

[angelatc]

There is speculation (I heard it here IIRC) that he's holding out for Fred to enter the race.

[Jared Callanan]

If Hunter is running for a cabinet position, wouldn't he WANT to get out once there is a perceived frontrunner and then endorse that candidate?


Do you really believe that the Iowa Straw Poll gave us a clear answer to who the front runner is? The MSM relies on polls to decide who the front runner is. Currently Mitt Romney is polling fourth behing Giuliani, Thompson, and McCain in the National polls. Duncan Hunter will in fact wait for a perceived front runner but that wont come for a while see the Howard Dean effect.

[Alabama Supporter]

Duncan Hunter is embarassing himself more than T. Thompson.

[Jared Callanan]

Duncan Hunter is embarassing himself more than T. Thompson.


Possibly but atleast he is running on some type of message. I still am unaware of what Tommy Thompson stands for.

[Original_Intent]

Do you really believe that the Iowa Straw Poll gave us a clear answer to who the front runner is? The MSM relies on polls to decide who the front runner is. Currently Mitt Romney is polling fourth behing Giuliani, Thompson, and McCain in the National polls. Duncan Hunter will in fact wait for a perceived front runner but that wont come for a while see the Howard Dean effect.

I agree, I did not mean to imply Ames gave us a frontrunner. I just meant I do not think that if he is going for a cabinet position that he will stay in until the primaries. I think he will wait as long as he can, but still throw his support to someone else while doing so is still meaningful. I expect when he leaves he will make a BIG deal about who he endorses (if the theory that he wants a Cabinet postion is right) and it will be based solely on who is leading at the time he departs.

[BLS]

Hunter will go next, and McCain soon after if he doesn't outright win or show VERY well in NH.

We just have to keep plugging away.

[libertarianguy]

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[Sean]

Duncan Hunter is embarassing himself more than T. Thompson.

Duncan Hunter just shows how the neocons have taken over the conservative media. Truthfully a conservative Republican that is for the war should support someone like Hunter over Fred, John or Rudy. Duncan has a solid conservative record on a lot of things and is not a chicken hawk at least. Instead conservatives are being run out by unprincipled people. That is how Bush got elected. They call the Republican party the stupid party because people keep being fooled to vote opposite their beliefs.

[Original_Intent]

hunter will drop out. No idea how long mccain will take to realize he's done, as he hasn't realized it thus far. Huckabee, brownback, and tancredo are all unpredictable, but may go at any time in the moderately distant future. Rudy will stay until fred eners the race, long enough to let flip-flopping foot-in-mouth mitt implode. Then we have to beat fred or fred will lose to hillary. The reno debate would have been a perfect chance to gain momentum, but it looks like nobody is interested in coming, let alone be televised nationally. We thus have to take every moment to bypass the media and go directly to each citizen. We need to go viral off-line, perhaps by means of an irrefutable dvd-to-end-all-dvds that will get people mad as hell without sounding like a fringe conspiracy theory

We have got to start pointing out to people that PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES are taking a pass on national TV exposure! This is unheard of, why are they so AFRAID of a kindly OB/GYN Congressman from Texas?????

They should just go ahead and do the debate, point out that everyone else decided not to come, and ask Congressman Paul questions for the entire time if no one else shows.

[shadowhooch]

Cox!

Did anyone else watch the speeches on C SPAN? Laura Ingram introduced John Cox as

"John Cock"

What a joke of an MC she was.

And yes, he should drop out. The Led Zeppelin intro to an empty auditorium was rather pathetic.

[stevedasbach]

McCain may stay in until January so that he can get matching funds. In his case, we're talking millions of dollars.

[shadowhooch]

Duncan Hunter just shows how the neocons have taken over the conservative media. Truthfully a conservative Republican that is for the war should support someone like Hunter over Fred, John or Rudy. Duncan has a solid conservative record on a lot of things and is not a chicken hawk at least. Instead conservatives are being run out by unprincipled people. That is how Bush got elected. They call the Republican party the stupid party because people keep being fooled to vote opposite their beliefs.

I agree. Of all the speeches on Saturday, Duncan Hunter gave one of the absolute best ones - substance, quality, hit all the issues. Even though I don't agree with him, it was a great speech.

Ron Paul's was great too. The crowd made it even better (good job guys)!

The rest lacked substance.

What blows me away is how anyone can vote for Tancredo or Brownback. Tancredo comes off to me as a complete racist against anything non-Christian and American stating "we are in a culture war" (and to think I used to like that guy). Brownback's solution is to "strenghten family values" and that solves everything. Hmmmmmmmm.....oooookay.:rolleyes:

As for Huckabee, anyone notice he keeps stealing lines from other people's speeches? He stole the Fed Ex line from Gingrich. And he also started sounding "Paul-esque" on a previous debate.

[libertarianguy]

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[PaleoConservative]

Uh, we are in a culture war. It's between those of us who want to return to traditional american values those who want to continue this country down the path to socialism and godless values.

[Psyclone]

Finishing second in the straw poll means Huckabee is in for quite a while. I would predict Brownback might be the next one out as he spent his war chest trying to finish off Huckabee in Ames (as they are competing for the same voters) and failed. With almost no money and no reason to suppose that he is going to reverse places with Huckabee, I can't see Brownback staying in much longer. It's hard to say when Hunter or Cox will drop out because I'm not convinced that either one actually believes he is going to get the nomination, and mostly they just like being candidates.

[Richandler]

Well hopefully we get enough drops to get Ron more debate time. He has not been able to talk about any issue other than the Iraq War on a national stage.

We can win this.